الطريق مسرحية افريقية

The Road is a very complex play, a combination of comedy and tragedy, very much Shakespearean in its make-up. The play shows the satirical and spiritual attitude of the dramatist. The subject of death, presented in The Road is found in an early poem "Death in the Dawn". Another event which makes Soyinka to write this poem is the death of his friend Segun Awolowo in an accident.